New Milford man going to prison for not paying workers

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http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/New-Milford-man-going-to-prison-for-not-paying-3688482.php

Rob Varnon
Updated 02:54 p.m., Saturday, July 7, 2012

The state Department of Labor announced Friday that Douglas Agnessanto, 56, of Gaylordsville, was ordered by a state judge to serve three months in prison for failing to pay seven employees of his former cleaning business.

Agnessanto was arrested in 2010 on felony charges stemming from complaints that he failed to pay the workers at his Danbury-based business, Performance Cleaning.

Agnessanto appeared in Danbury Judicial District Court last Monday, after being arrested on a warrant, according to the labor department. This is the first time a labor department action has resulted in a sentence of jail time and restitution for failing to pay wages, labor department spokeswoman Nancy Steffens said via email.

[pipoman]

1. As vile as not paying people is,

this line, "This is the first time a labor department action has resulted in a sentence of jail time and restitution for failing to pay wages, labor department spokeswoman Nancy Steffens said via email.", finding new reasons to imprison people in our nation of expanding prison populations is a bit unnerving.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. +1.

[tridim]

3. As some of you know, my former boss owes me over 30k

And he got away with it by hiding behind his "LLC", which is really nothing more than a license to screw your employees with no consequences.

Three months for my asshole boss would have been just about right IMO, but I couldn't afford justice because he didn't pay me.